The superhero genre speaks to a vast swath of humanity these days, and studios are in the business of constantly renewing their money-printing licenses. I sense we're nearing a saturation point with some of these icons, where it becomes more about the action figures and Happy Meals than it does the mythological heartbeat of the core ideas.

Mark Frost

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If man could apply half the ingenuity he’s exhibited in the creation of weapons to more sensible ends, there’s no limit to what he might yet accomplish

half might men

Hate wears you down and doesn’t hurt your enemy. It’s like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die.

hate hurt enemy

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find som... by Mark Frost

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

our-lives pain stories

We have two families in life. One were born with that shares our blood. Another we meet along the way that's willing to give it's life for us.

giving two blood

I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service called … YouTwit-face.

twitter-and-facebook youtube faces

The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full st... by Mark Frost

The first prerequisite of elaborate mental exercise was a full stomach.

stomach exercise firsts

I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine.

labyrinth balls mind

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

rumor truth-is internet

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the hum... by Mark Frost

Crime has always been a regrettably consistent element of the human experience.

crime consistent elements

Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the b... by Mark Frost

Keep your friends close and your enemies dead and buried in the basement.

buried basements enemy

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for r... by Mark Frost

Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

tariffs suffering spirit

There is a design behind the world that we are living in, which is veiled to most of us most of the time, but every once in a while, you catch a glimpse of it.

you design time world

Censors, the whole idea of it, is so childish. You feel like you're talking to hall monitors in school again.

childish feel you school

There is still a wildness inside people that we've spent millenni... by Mark Frost

There is still a wildness inside people that we've spent millennia trying to tame.

inside still trying people

It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.

you culture way interesting

Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, outward-moving bunch of people, but we don't understand that much about ourselves or how other people perceive us.

us how understand people

Since I've worked in film and television for so long, I've acquired the ability to let the version of the characters that lives in my mind make way for the living, breathing humans who are going to play them on screen. If you cast it right - and casting is about 80% of directing - they will eventually replace or exceed the imaginary image.

you mind long television

The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.

thought great time people

'Twin Peaks' is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch a... by Mark Frost

'Twin Peaks' is a continuing story; that comes from David Lynch and myself.

peaks twin story myself

The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame.

architecture three time reality